The Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the
Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the JewsThey like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
s have forcibly recruited children to fight in their war against Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...and the Saudi-backed government, threatening families in territories they control and indoctrinating young people to believe they will be fighting against Jews and Zionists, a journalist who formerly worked in Houthi-controlled territory for a decade told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.
"A," who spoke on condition of anonymity, explained that he feared the Houthis would punish his friends and colleagues still working in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
if they became aware of his communication with the Post. He noted that the Houthis are already holding several international humanitarian workers hostage, in addition to local aid employees.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) announced earlier this week that the Houthis have already sent at least eight people involved in human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
and humanitarian work for criminal prosecution on espionage-related charges punishable by death, since August 18.
Though the Houthis’ use of child soldiers has long been documented, A said, "The problem is escalating and increasing with the recent developments."
HOUTHIS THREATEN CITIZENS WITH DEATH IN ORDER TO RECRUIT MORE SOLDIERS
"Whenever they control new areas, the first thing they do is force people to be recruited. Otherwise, they will be punished, they will be imprisoned, or they will be killed," he explained.
"So this is one of the most significant issues and one of the least reported issues when it comes to the war in Yemen, and Houthis also want to compensate for what they lost over the past days because they lost a lot of fighters in Mokha and in their recent fighting and battles."
On the day that A spoke to the Post, he received a call from humanitarian contacts on the ground in Houthi-controlled territory warning him that the Houthis had begun indiscriminately shelling homes and schools and that bodies of women and kiddies were being piled high.
Given that A spent years working in Houthi-controlled territory, the Post asked him how the Houthis could justify killing Yemeni civilians, particularly given that the vast majority of their victims are Moslem.
Explaining that the reason the Houthis are comfortable killing their own people is the same reason that makes a peace agreement with them impossible, A said that it was "firmly" embedded in their ideology that they have the "divine right to govern... not only controlling all of Yemen, but also they want to control Mecca and Medina and Saudi Arabia."
"They believe that they have the divine right to govern the world, not only the Arabian Peninsula, and so they consider people who fight them or who try to resist them as traitors, and recently as Zionists," he continued, adding that the issue has only worsened since October 7, 2023.
HOUTHIS USE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR TO RECRUIT CHILD SOLDIERS
A said the Israel-Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
War had been a "good excuse to recruit," with videos of the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
regularly played to children to incite them against Israel. He added that, before October 7, there had been growing discontent with the Houthis, particularly over unpaid wages; still, many were more willing to tolerate the missed payments either because they wanted to support the Paleostinian cause or because they did not want to be labeled as Zionists.
Estimating that tens of thousands of children had been enlisted into the Houthis’ ranks since Hamas’s invasion, A noted that children aged between 12 and 15 had been captured attempting to fight government forces, proclaiming that they had traveled to the front to fight the Jews.
The anti-Israel popular opinion in Yemen among the entire population, A said, had also made the indoctrination of children easier, as many didn’t need to shift their thinking on the issue dramatically to align with the Houthis.
"They exploited what they called the Islamic background and people’s support for the Paleostinian cause," he said, adding that it has now begun to backfire and there is a growing number of Yemenis who feel resentful toward the Paleostinians.
"People are fed up even with the Paleostinian cause because it has caused a lot of damage to the country. The sentiment of people toward the Gaza issue and the Paleostinian cause has gone down sharply because they saw how the Houthis decided to kill Yemenis in the name of Gaza.
"They saw how the Houthis isolated Yemen by attacking vessels in the Red Sea in the name of Gaza. They saw how the Houthis even cut the income of thousands of fishermen who went jobless because of the Houthis’ ventures in the Red Sea," A added.
"So people saw the economic consequences of the Houthis’ actions over the past three years and started complaining and also started realizing that the Paleostinian cause is not our cause. Yemen is our cause. So this sentiment has shifted dramatically, but they continued to recruit and mobilize support inside Yemen in the name of fighting the US and Israel."
Adding to the bitterness, A said it was hard watching pro-Paleostinian activists in the West celebrate the Houthis and ignore comments from Yemenis trying to tell them that the group was a terrorist organization even if it partially aligned with their viewpoint.
"Gaza became a trend and profitable thing for many people, including Paleostinians, and the shocking fact is how many Paleostinian activists, journalists, and thinkers turn and support the Houthis at the expense of Yemenis and at the expense of Yemeni suffering," A said.